Today, established brands, like Brioni and Canali, are offering updated takes on the classic banker's suit.

WSJ: Against the Grain

In 1877, Schiaperelli thought he saw streaks on the Martian surface, and referred to them in his publications as canali, the Italian word for channels.

ECONOMIST: Martian chronicles

When you tour the factory floors of companies like Brioni and Canali you see how painstaking the process is, to what degree human skill still determines everything at the fine-clothes level.

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Best of all, the probe found that, although Schiaperelli's original canali were indeed an artefact of his telescope, the planet did have canyons and what appeared to be networks of valleys that seemed to have been carved by water flows aeons ago.

ECONOMIST: Martian chronicles